Year 6 Summer 1 Topic

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Read...
Look out for these books in your classroom, in the hall or at Brierfield Library!

Key vocabulary...

Fascinating facts...
electromagnetic radiation
grassland
opaque
population density
reflection
refraction
rural
translucent
transparent
white light
  • The Mojave Desert is famous for having the hottest air temperature and surface temperature recorded on Earth.

  • The Great Plains of America are 200 miles long and 500 miles wide.

  • White light is actually made up of a spectrum of colours (a rainbow).

  • Light travels at 300,000km per second (186,000 miles per second).

  • The speed of light is incredible. For light to get from the earth to the moon it takes only 1.255 seconds.

  • Light that we see from the sun actually left the sun ten minutes before we see it.

Explore...

Find out more about the book and the author on the official Louis Sachar website.

Visit...
St Anne's Beach and Pier - St Anne's
Police Museum - Manchester

Do...

  • Create a diorama of one of the settings described in the story using a cardboard box. 

  • The yellow spotted lizard is an imaginary creature created for the story.  Draw your own picture of it, what does it look like in your imagination?​

  • Stanley's name (Stanley Yelnats) is a palindrome.  Can you think of any palindrome names of your own?

In school...

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Class Novel - Holes by Louis Sachar